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My favourite academic books of 2017

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

  I don’t think I read as many new books this year as previous years, and the ‘to read’ piles get ever higher… But these are the academic books published in 2017 which I particularly liked: Update: the lists for … Continue reading →

Posted in Arlette Farge, Bruno Latour, Caren Kaplan, China Mieville, David Harvey, Ernst Kantorowicz, Eyal Weizman, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Politics, Setha Low, Sigmund Freud, Theory, Uncategorized, urban/urbanisation, William E Connolly, Writing | 12 Comments

Workshop Report from Territory, Law and the Anthropocene (Warwick, 1 December 2017)

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

My brief Workshop Report from the Territory, Law and the Anthropocene event held at the University of Warwick, 1 December 2017 is now up at the ICE-LAW Project site. On 1 December 2017, the Territory subgroup held its second workshop, Territory, Law … Continue reading →

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Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault in the Contemporary Archive

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

While I’m still waiting for her book, Foucault on Painting, to make it across the Atlantic, Catherine Soussloff has written a very interesting post about working on Foucault’s unpublished writings on painting to be found in the archives. Last spring, … Continue reading →

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Viewpoint Magazine forum on The Crisis of Marxism – Althusser, Balibar, Poulantzas, Buci-Glucksmann, etc.

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

The Crisis of Marxism – Asad Haider and Patrick King in Viewpoint Magazine Crisis Theory | Asad Haider In 1977 Louis Althusser gave a famous speech in Venice on “the crisis of Marxism,” a thesis almost as scandalous as that of an epistemological … Continue reading →

Posted in Etienne Balibar, Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Nicos Poulantzas, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

On turning down poorly-paid, limited value, academic work

Posted on December 19, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve just turned down another invitation to write an encyclopaedia entry. I agonised about it, and ended up posting about it on my personal Facebook page. The issue was in part the payment – £40 for 2000-2500 words. I’d be … Continue reading →

Posted in Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing | 3 Comments

Reflections on academic publishing in Fennia: International Journal of Geography

Posted on December 19, 2017 by stuartelden

The new issue of Fennia: International Journal of Geography has a number of reflections on academic publishing. Contributors include Krisi Pauliina Kallio and James Riding, Simon Batterbury, John C. Finn, Simon Springer, and Sara Fregonese. All pieces are available open access.

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Veronika Cheplygina – 5 strategies for saying “no” more often

Posted on December 19, 2017 by stuartelden

Veronika Cheplygina – 5 strategies for saying “no” more often I’ve written about this issue before, but there is some very good advice here. Here are the headlines, but do read the whole thing. 1. Does it help or hurt … Continue reading →

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Books received – Titus Andronicus, Sheridan, Lorenzini & Sforzini and Weizman

Posted on December 19, 2017 by stuartelden

The revised edition of the Arden Third Series, Titus Andronicus, edited by Jonathan Bate; a second-hand copy of Alan Sheridan’s Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth; Lorenzini and Sforzini’s collection Un demi-siècle d’ « Histoire de la folie »; and … Continue reading →

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Hot off the press: Architectural and Urban Reflections after Deleuze and Guattari

Posted on December 15, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
This book collects chapters on urbanism and architecture that first appeared as papers at the refrains of freedom conference in Athens (2015). From the publisher’s website: “The post humanist movement which currently traverses various disciplines…

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The Early Foucault Update 15: Working on Maladie mentale et personnalité and some archival and library work in Paris

Posted on December 15, 2017 by stuartelden

Earlier this month I finished working through Maladie mentale et personnalité, which I discussed beginning in the last update, and have drafted a substantial section analyzing the book. I imagine I can only use a fraction of the quotes I … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Daniel Defert, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Canguilhem, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Shakespearean Territories, Sigmund Freud, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments